Social Anthropology: Recent submissions
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The biblical concept of conversion and its social implications from a Latin American perspective
(1991) - ThesisThis work presents a concept of conversion using the researches of Liberation theologians and the relation of Jesus to four groups in the Synoptics. In chapter one, the main concern is the hermeneutical problem as ... -
Fertile words : aspects of language and sociality among Yanomami people of Venezuela
(2004) - ThesisIn the first part of the thesis (Chapters I to 7)1 discuss two Yanomami myths of origin, namely the myth of the origin of the night, and the myth of the master of banana plants. While drawing heavily on Lizot's ethnographical ... -
When sadness is beautiful : a study of the place of rationality and emotions within the social life of the Àve de Jesus
(2000) - ThesisThe ethnographic object of study of my thesis is a group of penitents, called ‘Ave de Jesus’, that dwells in the hinterlands of Northeast Brazil. As many other groups and penitents of this area they have a strong devotion ... -
The application of geomatic technologies in an indigenous context : Amazonian Indians and indigenous land rights
(2003) - ThesisIndigenous people have employed Western analogue techniques (maps, charts, etc) to support their land rights ever since their traditional territories came under threat. Although indigenous groups utilise such tools there ... -
The two shamans and the owner of the cattle : alterity, storytelling and shamanism amongst the Angaité of the Paraguayan Chaco
(University of St Andrews, 2010-06) - ThesisMy thesis examines from an ethnographic account how history has been made, told and interpreted by the Angaité people of the Chaco since the Paraguayan nation-state effectively carried out the colonization of this territory ...